Hi CB fiddle group. Thought someone on here might find this interesting..... A coworker of mine's neighbor gave this to him. He thought since I build CBGs I might be able to finish this. It's got two books with it. All the parts of the violin appear to be together. The neck/scroll has already been carved, the sides have been bent around a handmade plywood mold. The top and bottom of the body are partial cut/carved out. I would really like to see this completed, but it feels way out of my league at this point. I'm a box and a 1x2 CBG buildin kinda guy and I know I'll need guidance with this. Rand Moore suggested talking to Diane in Chicago about this, as she seems to know a right bit about fiddles and such. I found this group when I looked her up on the Nation and figured it would be a good place to post about this half finished violin rescued from the scrapheap. Thanks for checking this out, let me know what you think, Joe Cerroni
Whoever it was has made a good start, but there is still a bit of work to go.
See if you can check this book out from your local library - I referred to it lots when I built my latest cb fiddle. I'm about to try a backpacker fiddle next from scratch.
It is not out of your league - just take your time and don't rush. I had to let some ideas sit in my head for days before I was ready to go to the next step.
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Hi again, Joe Cerroni.
Here is a set of plans for a fiddle kit sold by Stew-Mac that I thought you might like to use as a reference.
Good luck in building it.
-Rand.
Whoever it was has made a good start, but there is still a bit of work to go.
See if you can check this book out from your local library - I referred to it lots when I built my latest cb fiddle. I'm about to try a backpacker fiddle next from scratch.
http://www.amazon.com/Violin-Making-Second-Revised-Expanded/dp/1565...
It is not out of your league - just take your time and don't rush. I had to let some ideas sit in my head for days before I was ready to go to the next step.